Skeletons come creeping out of the closet. With all the news surrounding the University of Oklahoma SAE fraternity members chanting a disturbing song about hanging black people, the death of an SAE brother at Cornell in 2011 has catapulted back into the spotlight. Especially because the young man who died during the alcohol-infused hazing ritual, sophomore George Desdunes of Brooklyn, was black. The...
Tag: Cornell SAE
Post
MetaEzra on George Desdunes ’13 and The Greek System
While the details of last Friday’s tragic death of George Desdunes ’13 are still unclear, MetaEzra has published a thought-provoking post on the big picture issues of this incident. All of his speculations are likely to be big points of discussion in the coming weeks and months: — Imagine that instead of Desdunes’s untimely death, he...